GnuCash and guile

Jesse Sinclair sinclair.jesse at gmail.com
Mon Dec 10 19:56:31 PST 2007


and it doesn't seem to work properly... After making the required symlinks,
I still get the guile not found / guile not working properly errors and thus
dumps the installation.


On Dec 10, 2007 7:49 PM, Michael Hart <mhart at baselinesolutions.com.au>
wrote:

> Hmmm... Well, GnuCash 2.2.1 builds fine, loads fine, but I get this
> when entering a new transaction:
>
> dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: _mark_split
>   Referenced from: /opt/local/lib/gnucash/libgncmod-engine.dylib
>   Expected in: flat namespace
>
> dyld: Symbol not found: _mark_split
>   Referenced from: /opt/local/lib/gnucash/libgncmod-engine.dylib
>   Expected in: flat namespace
>
> Trace/BPT trap
>
> And then it bombs...
>
> Maybe some more symlinking required...? Not sure.
>
> On 11/12/2007, at 2:40 PM, Michael Hart wrote:
>
> > There's actually a couple of small typos in the Trac Ticket comment
> > re the symlinks (the /bin/* files incorrectly named). This worked
> > for me:
> >
> > ln -s /opt/local/include/libguile16 /opt/local/include/libguile && \
> > ln -s /opt/local/include/libguile16.h /opt/local/include/libguile.h
> > && \
> > ln -s /opt/local/include/guile16 /opt/local/include/guile && \
> > ln -s /opt/local/bin/guile16 /opt/local/bin/guile && \
> > ln -s /opt/local/bin/guile16-config /opt/local/bin/guile-config && \
> > ln -s /opt/local/bin/guile16-snarf /opt/local/bin/guile-snarf && \
> > ln -s /opt/local/bin/guile16-tools /opt/local/bin/guile-tools && \
> > ln -s /opt/local/lib/libguile16.a /opt/local/lib/libguile.a && \
> > ln -s /opt/local/lib/libguile16.dylib /opt/local/lib/libguile.dylib
> > && \
> > ln -s /opt/local/lib/libguile16.la /opt/local/lib/libguile.la
> >
> > (trying to add this to Trac too, but having problems logging in)
> >
> > On 11/12/2007, at 2:16 PM, Michael Hart wrote:
> >
> >> And then you'll no doubt run into the problem outlined in Ticket
> >> #13472:
> >>
> >> http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/13472
> >>
> >> I haven't tried the solution listed there, but hopefully that works
> >> for you.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Michael
> >>
> >> On 11/12/2007, at 1:57 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> On Dec 10, 2007, at 20:45, Todd O'Bryan wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I was trying to install GnuCash and it said I didn't have guile.
> >>>> So I
> >>>> installed guile manually
> >>>
> >>> Define manually. Did you "sudo port install guile"? Or did you
> >>> manually download the guile source code and compile it and install
> >>> it somewhere? (where?)
> >>>
> >>>> and now it apparently thinks the guile that
> >>>> got installed isn't good enough.
> >>>>
> >>>> Any hints about where to go from here? I tried installing slib,
> >>>> but it
> >>>> says it's already installed.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> Todd
> >>>>
> >>>> doug-spauldings-imac:~ dougspaulding$ sudo port -vf install gnucash
> >>>> --->  Configuring gnucash
> >>>> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> >>>> ...
> >>>> checking for guile-config... yes
> >>>> checking whether guile-config works... yes
> >>>> checking for sin in -lm... yes
> >>>> checking for guile libraries... -D_THREAD_SAFE  -lguile -lltdl
> >>>> -L/opt/local/lib -L/opt/local/lib -lgmp -lm -lltdl
> >>>> checking for guile headers... -I/opt/local/include -D_THREAD_SAFE
> >>>> checking whether guile works... yes
> >>>> checking for guile... /opt/local/bin/guile
> >>>> checking for guile - 1.6.0 <= version < 99.99.99... yes: 1.8.3
> >>>> checking for guile - 1.8.0 <= version < 99.99.99... yes: 1.8.3
> >>>> checking for SLIB support... configure: error:
> >>>>
> >>>> Cannot find SLIB.  Are you sure you have it installed?
> >>>> See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347922
> >>>
> >>> [snip]
> >>>
> >>> So you have guile 1.8.3. According to the long description of the
> >>> gnucash port, "Variant +guile16 is enabled by default because
> >>> newer guile versions do not yet work correctly with MacPorts." So
> >>> gnucash apparently currently only works with guile 1.6.x not guile
> >>> 1.8.x.
> >>>
> >>> So, you should uninstall guile 1.8.3. Then you should sudo port
> >>> install gnucash, which should install guile16, slib and slib-
> >>> guile16 for you.
> >>>
> >>> Before you begin, make sure you have the latest ports by using
> >>> "sudo port selfupdate"
> >>>
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